Sametime 8 User Course Outlines

Using Sametime 8 Connect

This course will prepare you to use IBM Lotus Sametime Connect to effectively communicate with contacts via instant messages. Learn to manage your contacts using the Contact List and how to set and manage your availability status. Learn how to start, respond to, and effectively participate in a chat with one or several people. Other useful features are described including setting alerts, sending announcements, and participating in voice chats and instant meetings.

The course includes many hands-on practice activities to reinforce your learning and provide you with immediate feedback. For additional feedback, each course module includes a self-assessment quiz. The course is organized into five modules. A summary of the information in each module follows:

Module 1 - Introducing Lotus Sametime Connect
This module introduces Lotus Sametime Connect and the Sametime main user interface; the Contact List window. This module provides detailed coverage of the logon and logout procedures, the Sametime Help system, and setting the location setting preferences.

Module 2 - Managing Contacts
This module describes how to manage contacts using the Contact List.

Module 3 - Sametime Availability Status
Your availability and the availability of other Sametime users is indicated by availability status icons. These icons appear throughout the Sametime interface, such as the Contact List window, chat window and the instant meeting window. This module describes how to manage your availability status to best suit your needs. Setting alerts so that you can be notified when someone becomes available is also discussed.

Module 4 - Sametime Chat
The fundamental purpose of the Sametime Connect client is to exchange typed chat messages with one or more chat partners. This module provides details for using the different features and tools available in the Chat window. Learn how to start, respond to, and participate in a chat with one or several people.

Module 5 - Other Features
Other useful features are described including sending announcements and participating in voice chats and instant meetings.

Web Conferencing Using Sametime 8

The Sametime Web Conferencing server is used to conduct online meetings that support voice, chat and video communications. This course describes how to effectively participate in a Sametime Web Conference meeting. You will learn about the different roles in a Sametime meeting and the meeting tools available to you at each role level. As a meeting Attendee you can view meeting content in the presentation area but are not permitted to control what is displayed. As a meeting Presenter you can display a slide presentation, run a demonstration by sharing your screen, or use a whiteboard to draw a diagram or conduct a brainstorming session. As the meeting Chair you can do anything a Presenter can do and you have additional controls to send Web pages to meeting participants and to conduct polls.

The course includes many hands-on practice activities to reinforce your learning and provide you with immediate feedback. For additional feedback, each course module includes a self-assessment quiz.
The course is organized into four modules. After the introductory Module 1, the material in the remaining three modules is organized to reflect the three roles in a Sametime Web Conference meeting: Attendee, Presenter and Chair. A summary of the information in each module follows:

Module 1- Introducing Sametime Web Conferencing
This module introduces Sametime Web Conferencing, the Sametime Welcome Page and the Meeting Center.

Module 2 - Attending a Meeting
This module describes what you can do when you are assigned the Attendee role in a meeting. Attendees can view meeting content in the presentation area but are not permitted to control what is displayed. They can communicate via private or group chat, raise and lower their hand, and participate in polls.

Module 3 - Presenting in a Meeting
This module describes what you can do when you are assigned the Presenter role in a meeting. Presenters have permission to present and can control the content in the Presentation Area. Meeting presenters can display slide presentations, run a demonstration by sharing their screen, or use a whiteboard to draw a diagram or conduct a brainstorming session. There can be multiple presenters in a meeting.

Module 4 - Chairing a Meeting
This module describes what you can do when you are the Chair in a meeting. The meeting Chair (there can only be one) has special meeting moderator capabilities and can also do anything that a Presenter can do. The meeting Chair has controls to send Web pages and conduct polls. The person chairing the meeting can be the only presenter in the meeting, or they can grant Presenter permission to other participants in the meeting.